JOINT STATEMENT ON CHARGES ISSUED BY ST. LOUIS COUNTY AGAINST PROTESTERS ARRESTED LAST YEAR St. Louis County is marking the one-year anniversary of the death of Michael Brown by charging hundreds of people arrested ...
Police Repression and Police Reform For the past year, videos of police shootings have saturated the media, giving urgency to calls for police reform — especially in poor, black neighborhoods. But what does “reform” mean ...
In Interventions on the 50th anniversaries of events in the American Civil Rights Movement, LDF attorney Leah Aden contributes a piece titled “The right to vote is under seige.” Aden’s essay focuses on the erection of additional ...
50 years on, does the Voting Rights Act offer adequate protection? Fifty years ago, the Voting Rights Act outlawed discriminatory practices used to stop Americans from casting a ballot. President Obama marked the occasion with ...
Steps Congress must take to ensure true freedom …The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was the crown jewel of these civil-rights laws. It ended specific tools of racial discrimination in elections and was equipped to ...
Ohio police officer charged with murder Univ. of Cincinnati police officer Raymond Tensing has been charged with the murder of Samuel Dubose following a traffic stop. Lawrence is joined by the [NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s ...
Unanswered questions surround Sandra Bland death Monique Dixon, senior policy counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, joins Andrea Mitchell to talk about the investigation into the death of Sandra Bland in a ...
